linux-kernel - [PATCH] drm: vkms: check status of alloc_ordered

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Message-Id: <20190309043628.6078-1-kjlu@umn.edu>
Date:   Fri,  8 Mar 2019 22:36:27 -0600
From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, Rodrigo Siqueira <rodrigosiqueiramelo@...il.com>,
        Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@...il.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] drm: vkms: check status of alloc_ordered_workqueue

alloc_ordered_workqueue may fail and return NULL.
The fix returns ENOMEM when it fails to avoid potential NULL
pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c
index 8a9aeb0a9ea8..bb66dbcd5e3f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_crtc.c
@@ -219,6 +219,8 @@ int vkms_crtc_init(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_crtc *crtc,
 	spin_lock_init(&vkms_out->state_lock);
 
 	vkms_out->crc_workq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("vkms_crc_workq", 0);
+	if (!vkms_out->crc_workq)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.17.1